• HarryLime [any]
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    4 years ago

    He praised Christianity to his conservative base, but the way he lived was secular. He thought Christianity was eventually going to have to be eliminated from Germany, and favored Germanic Paganism. He wasn't exactly not a Christian, and wasn't an atheist, but it's not very cut-and-dry. IDK why someone would go with him for this meme and not the Spanish Inquisition or something. Calling him an "evil Christian" and placing him as opposite to MLK implies that Christianity was as important to his beliefs and actions as it was for MLK, who was a minister, and that's just not the case.

    • Shitbird [any]
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      4 years ago

      So he was so evil he was also bad at being Christian. Makes sense.

      • Pezevenk [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        He wasn't really trying to be a christian, most of the most deeply ideological nazis weren't. They were into weird Germanic pagan shit, also see Himmler and his weird occultism. They preached christianity to their base because they knew their audience. Golden Dawn recently is another example, their leadership is into weird dodekatheist nonsense and paganism but they started pretending to be orthodox because that's what all their base was into.

        • Shitbird [any]
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          4 years ago

          I know I'm just commiting to my username lol